How Dare You

I can only stare in disbelief
At your gall, your sheer audacity
Of trying to waltz back into my life
Like you’d never razed your way out of it
Burning everything down
Until all you left behind was ashes.

You clueless, despicable child
Playing at being a woman
With a lover like you,
Who needs...

Pale Imitations

Our glory is your glory
Our success is your success
Our brilliance is your brilliance.

It is all thanks to you,
You say, raising your glass
Crowing, shouting,
Talking above our voices
Silencing us until
All they can hear is you.

How easily you claim us:
Your children.

You claim our...

The bells are loud, the crowd louder still, excited as the confetti falls and cheers ring out everywhere when you arrive.

You laugh your girlish laugh, so dear to me from our childhood together, as he twirls you in your resplendent shades of silver and white. Dark hair against pale skin, the both of you, a pretty...